Sentences with phrase «despite federal mandates»

Paraprofessionals also report that they are often left alone with students to make important decisions and act independently, despite federal mandates that require paraprofessionals to work under the supervision of a certified teacher.

Gov. George Wallace refused to let black students enter the University of Alabama in 1963 despite a federal mandate.

Not exact matches

So, despite raising some revenue from mandate penalties, the federal government ends up paying more as premium support.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver does not seem terribly perturbed about the prospect of having three separate primaries — federal, state and presidential — despite the fact that he and his Democratic colleagues have indicated a preference for moving the state contests up to conform with Judge Gary Sharpe's mandated June 26 date for the House and US Senate races.

Despite increasing state and federal mandates on our county and a decrease in state and federal dollars we have put Oneida County in a solid financial position.»

Keep taxes low, despite pressure to pay for unfunded mandates from the state and federal governments and the skyrocketing cost of medical insurance for our employees.

Despite the lack of facts about successfully promoting research integrity, IOM and the meeting participants were certain of one thing — the federal government should not mandate RCR education.

In the final report of a three - part national assessment of Chapter 1, mandated by the Congress in 1983, an independent research team says that, despite an overhaul of the program's authorizing legislation in 1981, the services it funds and the kinds of students it serves have remained relatively stable since the federal government began financing compensatory education in 1965.

Add it up and, despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

Unfortunately, the realities of the modern school day, with numerous state and federal standards and mandates, often squeeze out language instruction from the schedule — despite significant interest from educators and parents in making language learning more accessible.

Despite the availability of Pell Grants and federal subsidized loans, the government does not mandate that colleges administer standardized tests.

Despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

And all of this is happening despite the fact that teachers and principals in this state of New York already, and democratically, created sound evaluation plans to which the majority had already agreed, given the system they created to meet state and federal policy mandates was much more defensible, and much less destructive.

Despite the restructuring of wholesale markets that began in the 1990s and continues to this day, nothing has fundamentally changed about that mandate, which is now the responsibility of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.